Saturday, December 01, 2012

ALBUM DU JOUR #4: POLLUTING THE MAINSTREAM

The Eagles! Fleetwood Mac! Styx! Marie Osmond! That's the kind of stuff I listen to now. All that weird, experimental stuff - what was I thinking? Writing a blog about music that so few people care about...what a sad lonely life I've been livin'... Well, forget that, I'm gonna be NORMAL! And what a relief it is, lemme tell you - I'm gonna hang out in sports bars, watch "American Idol," stop listening to college/public radio and keep my dial set on AM talk from now on. Hall & Oates! Chicago! Muthafuckin' ABBA! Hell yeah, where's my pink Izod shirt and penny loafers?!

This playlist is no joke. All the artist represented here making crazed noise, goofball novelties, flipped-out weirdness, and self-indulgent nonsense are the very same acts who made all those familiar mainstream hits (granted, including Joey Ramone here stretches the definition of 'mainstream' a bit). See? The Beatles weren't the only superstars to have a "Revolution No.9" in them.

UPDATE 12/2/12: Now on Zippyshare, for those of you who had trouble with MediafirePOLLUTING THE MAINSTREAMI was going to go into explanations about how these oddities came to be, like how that's Robert Fripp (!) playing on the Hall & Oates, how "Mother" was the only song by the Police that I loved, etc., but I think it's best for you to just listen to this and be amazed - play it for your friends and see if they can guess who's who. 1. Chicago "Free Form Guitar"2. Donovan "The Intergalactic Laxative"3. The Eagles "The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks" 4. Fleetwood Mac "Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In"5. Frank Sinatra "Reflections On The Future In 3 Tenses" excerpt (by Gordon Jenkins)

Thanks Holly & Rich, and Holly I will def be looking into those alternatives. I tried Massmirror for a bit this year but it was too complicated - I got complaints that there were just too many hoops to jump thru so I'll look into your suggestions. Much appreciated.